Laurel Kroo
Postdoctoral Fellow
  3-249a |   kroo[at]mit.edu

Education

• Ph. D. Stanford University 2022 (Mechanical Engineering)
• M.S. Stanford University 2017 (Mechanical Engineering)
• B. S. Olin College of Engineering 2014 (Mechanical Engineering)

Research Interests

- Polymeric/Viscoelastic fluids
- Measurement techniques of transient properties of complex fluids 
- Liquid Foams and emulsions
- Adaptive and field-responsive fluids

About Me

Laurel Kroo is a postdoctoral scholar in the Non-Newtonian Fluids group, and will be starting as an incoming Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in Polymer Science and Engineering in fall of 2025. Laurel's current work at MIT is focused on sensing transient material properties in polymeric viscoelastic fluids, for applications in food science and manufacturing.